Ave Maria

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

I won tickets to see Muallaf premier in Cineleisure at The Curve thanks to random comment I gave on KLue fanpage on Facebook.

Again, any movies by the late, great storyteller will never fail to disappoint those who can truly read between the lines in what she produced. An elegant masterpiece, with excellent details that comes with joy of humor and tears of sadness. Unlike most fabricated rubbish that concentrate on making money, this movie primarily is one of the simplest movie above all. The others were more heavy in content but this one is a fairly light one and I wonder why it has been banned for the past 2 years.

She described bits of Koran and ordinary life of people in details that could only be described in her way of making movies.

The balding issue? Or the overly religious quotes from the Holy Books such as Koran and Bible? As well as Tao Te Ching?

"People are afraid of things they do not know about"

Watching such great epic made me realize how unreligious I have became and how the lazy bug hits me on my prayers. I may not be the kind that complete it entirely but I do try to pray on time, which can be challenging sometime and I do still have faith in The Almighty.

I worry too about those who have lost theirs.

Initially, I wanted to elaborate about the movie but I guess its best not to give spoiler. Have a go and watch it when it comes out! It may not be as futuristic as Avatar and so much action like New Moon but the love story could be enjoyed as well.

GO!

Save Yvonne's Sight

My sincere apology of not being original for this entry; its all tagged, copy-paste from Vern's blog.

Anyone who keeps up with the news would have heard about our local heroine, Yvonne Foong and her battle against neurofibromatosis type II, which has severely affected her sight and hearing due to tumours in the brain and spine. She is scheduled for an operation between 1 and 4 December 2009. The cost of surgery is USD44,000 or RM154,770, and the cost of staying in hospital for two weeks is USD915 or RM3219.

She has raised about RM10,000 of this and is hoping to raise the rest by republishing her book I’m Not Sick; I’m Just a Bit Unwell in English and Chinese. The books are now available in Malaysian bookshops and from her web site store. She is also selling T-shirts at bazaars and via her web site store. Online donations can also be made via by clicking on this link. She keeps an online journal and you can read all about her amazing inspiring journey here.

You can also help by sending on this meme. If you do, please follow these meme rules:

1. Create a blog entry titled “Meme: Save Yvonne’s Sight”
2. List three things you love to see. Add in the picture of Yvonne’s book cover. The URL is http://www.yvonnefoong.com/images/banner/my-story.jpg
3. End with the line, “Yvonne Foong is in danger of losing her eyesight thanks to neurofibromatosis (NF). Please find out how you can help her by visiting her blog at http://www.yvonnefoong.com.
4. Tag 5 blog friends. Be sure to copy the rules, OK?
5. If you have a Facebook account, please check out Ellen’s new invention, a “feme” pronounced FEEM, a meme designed for Facebook here. And if you want to blog about NF, that would be great too!

And so here's a list of 3 things I want to see;

1: The smile of joy of my family members and the friends I've befriended with as well the new significant bloggers I've befriended with

2: My missing cats and kitten coming home and not running away anymore.

3: Reliable people, with good intention by nature to help one another.

And I'm tagging whoever who would like to do a little of charity in the holy month of Ramadan.

For those of you who aren’t tagged, do feel free to help out by spreading the word. Perhaps, because of you, Yvonne gets to make a list of the things she loves to see too.

Thou must love animals.